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HR/CN/982

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONCLUDES FIFTY-SIXTH SESSION

(Reissued as received.)

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SG/SM/7374

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SUDAN GOVERNMENT’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF HUMANITARIAN CEASEFIRE, 29 APRIL TO 15 JULY

Expresses Hope that People’s Liberation Movement/Army Will Observe Same Pause

The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

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GA/SM/162

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT DELIVERS KEYNOTE ADDRESS IN NEW YORK AT ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF ‘VICTORY OF PEACE’ IN VIET NAM

Following is the text of the keynote address by the President of the General Assembly, Theo-Ben Gurirab (Namibia) at the celebration of the Twenty- fifth Anniversary of the Victory of Peace in Viet Nam, at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York, on 30 April:

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PI/1243

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC INFORMATION ADDRESSES COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION, AS IT OPENS TWO-WEEK SESSION

Kensaku Hogen Highlights Pilot Project for United Nations Radio, Dissemination of Secretary-General’s Millennium Report, Use of Internet

The Secretary-General travelled to Bangui from Gabon in the afternoon of Sunday, 30 April, to begin the first-ever visit of a United Nations Secretary- General to the Central African Republic.

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DC/2702

IRAQ CHARGES UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM WITH USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM IN 1991 GULF WAR; ALSO IN ‘AGGRESSION’ AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA

Calls for Right to Demand Compensation; Kenya Says Radioactive-Waste Dumping ‘Defies Minimum Human Decency’

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ORG/1302

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MAY 2000

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in May, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Banjul in the morning of Friday, 28 April, for the first-ever visit by a Secretary-General to the Gambia.

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GA/PAL/831

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PALESTINE REFUGEES HOLDS SECOND PLENARY SESSION ON THEME UNITED NATIONS AND PALESTINE REFUGEES

(Received from a UN Information Officer; reissued as received.)

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SEA/1672

COMMISSION ON LIMITS OF CONTINENTAL SHELF TO MEET AT HEADQUARTERS 1-5 MAY

The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf -– one of three institutions created by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea -– will hold an open meeting on Monday, 1 May, at the start of its five-day seventh session at Headquarters.